Thread Forming Device for Silk Spinning Machines, US Patent No. 361129
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US Patent No. 361,129, granted April 12, 1887 to Léon Camel of Lyons, France, for a mechanical device that joins the end of a new cocoon fiber to the thread during silk reeling (cocoon spinning). It replaces the skilled hand-work of the spinner with a rapidly rotating notched disk on a tube around a fixed central tube with an agate bushing. The text covers the problem, the operation, the characteristic features, and six claims, with drawings of the device in sectional views and plan.
- Type
- Patent
- Date
- April 12, 1887
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
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